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Aviva is returning £81m to its private medical insurance (PMI) customers after claims and treatment were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The payments amount to around six weeks’ worth of premiums for...

The pandemic has driven awareness of the importance of customers taking out income protection (IP) cover as never before and the market is seemingly buoyant. Advisers are capitalising on this renewed interest...

LifeSearch has revealed that its income protection (IP) sales have seen a steady increase for the second year running. The advice firm has seen a 12% increase in the number of customers...

Halcyon Trustees managing director John Dean has warned it may only be a matter of time before someone in the healthcare trust sector is caught “with their hand in the till”. He...

A serial fraudster who lied about having terminal cancer has been jailed for six years and nine months after executing an insurance and investment scam worth almost £2m. The swindle included a...

Joanna Plane, senior team manager in customer service at Axa Health, speaks to Health & Protection about their experience as a non-binary gay person in the sector, coming out twice and the...

Cavendish Online will retain autonomy over its pricing model following its sale to Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), the banking giant has told Health & Protection. Yesterday LBG unveiled plans to acquire Cavendish...

Cavendish Online founder and managing director Ian Williams (pictured) is to retire following the sale of the protection intermediary to Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) for £12m. An LBG spokesperson confirmed the move...

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) has announced plans to acquire Cavendish Online for £12m. The UK protection intermediary offers hybrid direct to consumer, guided and advised life insurance, critical illness and income protection...

Advisers are warning that the severity of medical inflation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is making international private medical insurance (IPMI) unsustainable in the region. The panel at Health & Protection’s...